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I am a failed biology O level and thrown out of chemistry old person. I know nothing. However, I never believed that the deadly pathogen was deadly or new. If it was an escaped gain of function bioweapon it was pretty crap (luckily). I remember pointlessly telling everyone that SARS-CoV-19 was a frigging Coronavirus and the world and his wife had all had colds which were coronaviruses so they all had a level of immunity to this one. I wailed on pointlessly about how could it be so deadly and contagious if you didn't know you had it unless you stuck a cotton bud up to the back of your nose. That a mask might stop you swallowing a gnat and if it could stop you inhaling a virus you'd be able to see the damn thing wafting through the air. I have not and never would do a PCR test to see if I had a cold. How was it not obvious to all the clever people if an idiot like me could see the hysterical scam for the fake that it was?

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I learned a statement from Chinese students that answers your question. “Do not try to fool me, I haven’t been to university.”

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Apparently a Uni education is the key to resisting Covid misinformation. I am glad I left school at 15 and studies at the University of Real Life! Trust no one and question everything has served me well.!

‘A new study has found that people with a university degree were less likely to believe in COVID-19 misinformation and more likely to trust preventive measures than those without a degree. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth highlighted that both scientific misinformation and trust in preventive measures were significantly associated with participants' educational levels. However, participants' religious beliefs didn’t have any impact on their belief in scientific misinformation or trust in preventive measures.’

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/education-levels-impact-on-belief-in-scientific-misinformation-and-mistrust-of-covid-19-preventive-measures

University of Portsmouth 17/2/2023

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I didn’t even graduate from high school and no college of course but I am a God-fearing woman and I didn’t believe in this Covid crap from the get-go. I did not want that. Q-tip shoved up my nose. I didn’t need to go get checked to see if I had it, I had a sinus cold that was it. People were so stupid to go and run to get checked to see if they had Covid like it was a badge of honor or something.

I don’t trust the government and I never have and that’s something. My dad taught me so whatever they were pushing, I knew I should do the opposite. And my instincts told me that Fauci was a fraud.

And I also know about the globalist and when our government is trying to pay us to do something, they want it way too bad and that’s a big red flag. 🚩

I’ll never trust the government and I don’t trust most of the medical establishment either. I believe they killed my brother when he was in the hospital he walked in the hospital and never came out. I believe they gave him Remdezavir. Yeah I don’t trust our government.

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Well said. Fear God and dread nought.

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Not sure I buy that. For one, I have seen reports of studies that say the opposite and as I teach at Uni and am one of just two I know that went maskless the whole time, experience indicates that university students, graduates and institutions were heavily into the covid madness. I read at least one study that found non uni students/grads and PHDs were the groups least likely to fall for the covid panic.

But, my corner of the world is small.

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I think you've misunderstood Bilbo's sarcastic point here, Kitsune. He and you (and I) agree that academic and university-educated types are actually the ones most likely to have fallen for the Covid BS (= to have rejected 'Covid misinformation', in the words of the linked report).

I am a former university teacher and, like you, was one of the very few from that circle to see the masking and the panic for the nonsense it was.

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Irony, sarcasm and satire have taken a beating these past 5 years. So much that has become real would fit easily into one of these 3 categories that I have difficulty telling when someone is using any of these.

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I went to the same University, different campus, Australia. 🦘

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I think one should say that the study is confusing without looking in detail. After all the misinformation and fake news was from the authorities telling us we were all going to get sick if we didn't get tested, wear masks, get jabbed etc.

I have a degree in Land Management from a long time ago, not one of these sociology type degrees or indoctrinated in biology falsehoods. I managed to work it out by June 2020 and I was slow.

I also put my trust in God and ask searching questions to which I get answers.

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So, the sequencing of the Virus was fraudulent, the PCR test supposedly based on that sequencing was fraudulent, the symptoms were non-specific, the vaccines were fraudulent (not safe and could not be effective if no virus to be effective against), and as a result, the case and death counts were fraudulent. Since this does not seem like rocket science, most people trained in science should've seen this. The only explanation is complete corruption and grift. If the CDC and all its international counterparts dissolved this afternoon, the human race would be better off.

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Sprinkle in some fear and professional incompetence to go with corruption and grift. For every doctor and scientist who might apply critical thinking and a questioning attitude, there are 10,000 who have copied and memorized and repeated what they read or were told or taught to get their degree and license.

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I completely Agree

I replied here https://substack.com/@mxautonomywise/note/c-93636895

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No, I think most people trained in science are just not trained in critical thinking. They're trained to regurgitate scientific dogmas. (I'm no infallible authority on this, of course, but I do have a BSc degree and a PhD in philosophy.) Nor are they trained in the social psychology of belief formation, of which the 'pandemic' was a rather surreal and instructive case study. Instead they're indoctrinated to believe that they are uniquely historically Enlightened because they've overcome Superstition (i.e., religion and metaphysics) and they know Science.

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When I think of "The Science" I always think of Richard Feynman's address on "Cargo Cult Science":

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

There's quite a lot of experimentation, measurement, gadgets, and so on, but drawing reasonable conclusions - judgment/wisdom/critical thinking - is so very absent from "science".

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what are lords and masters are really referring to when they say The Science is Aleister Crowley Magick (it was termed The Science), Blavatsky etc. TPTB know full well that science is an ongoing debate and there is no such thing as one correct science. THey use this term to take the piss. THey mean the dark arts, which is exactly what they are practising against us , ramped up massively during the scamdemic

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"The only explanation is complete corruption and grift" any doubt?!

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AGREED 👍 TIM

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Amen.

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The big picture is that the G7 bankers recognized in 2019 that their financial system was in total free fall so they had to gin up a new "War on Terror" to keep the public ignorant of this fact and invent yet another rationale for all sorts of bailouts, cover-ups and biosecurity measures. The controllers used a pandemic to cover up a bond/treasuries default problem. The debt bubble was going to blow so they needed a smokescreen to save the system.

Hence the appearance of the invisible enemy launched in 2020 by the corporate-owned mass media propaganda system.

One of the major aspects of the Covid operation is to invent a new market for Pharmaceuticals. It is impossible to underestimate the value that Pharma and the medical cartel bring to large financial investment firms. Pharmaceuticals and the "health management system" in the US is currently the largest sector of the US economy.

It is also impossible to overstate how severe the economic crash of 2019 was for the Pharma Industry. Fortunately for these parasites a phony Pandemic magically appeared in 2020.

The problem for Pharma is that they need new diseases (which they create with their products) and blockbuster drugs to continue their Ponzi schemes. Vaccines play an enormous role in this as they are one of the largest ROI "drugs" in the Pharma playbook, have guaranteed uptake via mandated vaxx schedules and have indemnity- a perfect business model.

Without "blockbuster" drugs the Pharma Industry essentially falls apart. The plan is for the mRNA "vaccine" cash cow to be much bigger than Covid. The plan is to use similar mechanisms against any imagined viral pathogen in existence and now that they've gotten the tech to market they'll start going down the list using their readily "downloadable" mRNA platforms for these new "diseases" that they perpetually invent.

Part and parcel of this aspect of the Covid Operation is to codify a mechanism that allows Pharma to sidestep lengthy and costly clinical trials with this new "Pharma model" as they are deemed no longer necessary with this "new" delivery system. This allows for greater profiteering as Phase 3 clinical trials make up to 80% of all R&D costs for approved drugs.

The plan was simple- the very people who orchestrated the 2008 banking crisis, followed by massive quantitative easing which triggered runaway inflation will be entrusted with resolving all the self inflicted problems by the use of intensive control measures. A cover story was needed. It's a war against the people.

How to execute this massive operation? Easy. Well deployed weaponized piles of money work better than any complex conspiracy.

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Reiner Fuellmich and his colleagues reached the same conclusion in their 2022 Covid-19 Grand Jury Crimes Against Humanity model trial, namely that Covid was all about unsustainable financial system debt. The last I heard, Dr Fuellmich was languishing in prison on trumped up charges. My summary of the trial is here, kindly hosted by Joel Smalley: https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.

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Oh my gosh you’re kidding me. I was following him a little bit back when he was building a case and I believe he has dual citizenship here and Germany, but that really makes me feel so bad for him. I never knew what happened with what he was doing. That’s a shame that these elites have so much power. I mean we know they’ve killed off a lot of doctors, I remember Dr Gonzalez which was Suzanne Summer’s doctor they knocked him off and like 100+ others fur helping people get rid of their cancer. One day all these jerks will answer to God.

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One of the diseases pharma created is turbo cancer from the mRNAIDS injections. Now Larry Ellison from oracle can give us mRNAIDS cancer treatments to profit even more while killing us. $cience!

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I wrote a rap about that in 2021 and I'm not that bright just honest and good at bullshit detection.

All wars are bankers wars

https://open.substack.com/pub/thumbnailgreen/p/coming-soon?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios

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The inventor of PCR, who won a Nobel Prize for it, was very clear that it could never be used for diagnostic purposes, which is what it was used for to scare ignorant people into compliance with draconian measures.

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Kerry Mullins was likely one of the most dangerous men to those who led the covid scam. He was brilliant, credible, easy to understand despite the complexity of some of his work, and very outspoken against the corrupt and fraudulent "scientists" like Fauci who he could easily expose. I hope a good investigative journalist does a deep dive into what actually happened to him.

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Kary Mullis also, conveniently for Covid agenda-pushers, died in August of 2019.

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"Kary Mullis" is correct, apologies for the sloppy spelling

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Yes, shame he died so prematurely!

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There are some that claim it was murder.

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I couldn’t possibly comment!

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You just did:-)

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And he died soon after.

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And some think he was murdered soon after.

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This is untrue, he patented PCR as a diagnostic!

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Kary Mullis said: “Anyone can test positive for practically anything with a PCR test, if you run it long enough with PCR if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.”

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Which is why we report Ct's! And he knew this, hence the parents he filed for PCR as a diagnostic

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Since you have a copy of the parent (sic), please share it with the rest of us.

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I mostly think it's because people can't wrap their heads around the very old and diabolical agendas we are dealing with...the levels of global coordination, grift/corruption and control that we already live under, let alone the unfathomable levels of what these psychopathic "elites" think they can force us into. It's literally like a bad sci-fi horror movie.

People can't wrap their heads around the evil wrecking-ball depopulation and collapse agendas, being unleashed upon the gloobe. It defies logic and sanity. People are naive, apathetic, dumbed-down and ignorant -- and the truths are just too big and scary to look at for most.

These psychopathic "elites" know this about human behavior and use it against us -- as evidenced by how they can literally show and say things right out in the open and STILL the people can't (won't) see. God help us.

PS and Newsflash: "They" are not "elites"! Only rich, insane, aeithistic/nilist/psychopathic/satanic scumbags...that are using ancient knowledge and systems for deceptive power an control. They are not as powerful as we think! All it takes is mass awakening and non-compliance to stop their plans! DO everytyhing you can to simply awaken ONE person. One more person disconnected from social media and MKUltra TV PROGRAMMING and seeking the truth, is one step closer to the TRUE "reset" that humanity needs. We must strive to give up all distractions/"bread and circus" and focus on awakening, preparing and strengthening.

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Thank you I worry we are wallowing in angels on a pinhead territory whilst skirting around how to fight back together. I am adopting tailored comments to individuals where and when. We must WAKE UP!

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People think that the idea of a group of people getting together to plan an agenda to harm them is just preposterous and the concept is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. They like to believe it’s all one big coincidence. I once read a comment somewhere which said that the jabs were an IQ test …. It would be interesting to see the score!

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Sadly yep...but so many high IQ people were fooled into jabbing. I believe many got emotionally polarized, mk ultra'd, and/or perhaps they just couldn't fathom the level of nefarious evil we are dealing with. That is actually understandable IMO. The IQ test is happening now. If you STILL can't/won't see, in the presence of staggeringly overwhelming evidence, then yeah, you're pretty stupid at this point. Heck, I know that people are on their own timelines for awakening but come on, what the heck is it going to take???

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"Oh dear, I'm dead" will do but a bit late sadly. My variants of Stupid 20 only go to this year.

https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/100-up-and-stupid-20-variants?utm_source=publication-search

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Exactly !

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Thank you chaps for your insights and time spent explaining what is probably the most important work; work that to my mind is the most underrated in this whole covid debacle. Norman and Martin - your cheap trick article and supporting articles around 3 years ago explained the con trick and effects of delayed death reporting, and misclassification; and now this article that shines light on the non specificity of the covid test. I did wonder about the viral competition explanation; it did look very much like rebranded flu at the time. Out of all the authors on substack, I rely on you guys to come up with the really meaty insights - thank you

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Many thanks George. Much appreciated.

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and the Diamond Princess revealed all---whatever it was, if anything, wasn't deadly AND nothing would have ,in any case justified, the actions of the authorities AND in any case NOTHING worked (because there was nothing too work on?)--as you showed with Gerry Quinn

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Yes Professor John Ioannidis showed us the IFR for the plandemic in 2020. Sadly he did an about face recently and promoted covid vaxxes?

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He's probably having lunch with RFK Jnr.

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I obtained this revealling information from FOIs in relation to the PCR test kits used in Scotland.

https://ibb.co/qMTFX58c

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Yup!

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For the record, In June 2023, Panda published an article that pointed to 4 main flaws with the PCR tests:

1. "If the cycle threshold is too high, it will return a high number of false positives."

2. "As disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positives increases."

3. "The number and type of primers used for identifying the presence of SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to pick up fragments originating from some other source."

4. "The PCR test is capable of finding virus fragments, or intact virus in the airway, but is not capable of determining if a person is actually infected with Covid. Since clinical symptoms were not required to be present, many uninfected individuals falsely tested positive."

https://pandata.org/was-sars-cov-2-entirely-novel-or-particularly-deadly/

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Then again, in Oct 2023 another Panda article boldly stated:

"The PCR test commonly used for determining Covid cases is not capable of establishing whether or not a person is actually infected with a virus, but it is capable of giving false positives."

https://pandata.org/covid-mortality-patterns-in-the-usa/

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In case it hasn't been put in comments already, Dr JJ Couey seems on a similar pathway to your work re PCR, at the National Citizens Enquiry in Canada.

Stating the PCR could not be tuned to look for covid so much as to look for ANY background coronavirus...

"The PCR can't differentiate between any of these coronaviruses" (meaning"covid" or any other coronavirus")

At 32:45 timecode:

https://rumble.com/v2kzyiq-jjcouey-dr.-jj-couey-phd-testifies-at-the-nci-national-citizens-inquiry-res.html

Also in line with what you said with it returning positives on a singular gene which cannot be relied upon, from the CDC in the USA:

"Important to note re PCR used for Covid CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel"

Page 38:

"Detection of viral RNA may NOT indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the CAUSATIVE agent for clinical symptoms"

"This test CANNOT rule out diseases caused by OTHER BACTERIAL or VIRAL pathogens.”

https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

I added the capitalisation for emphasis

Starting at that reference, it seems that the test cannot tell if you have infectious covid, or even "covid" itself, it cannot therefore determine if any symptoms are related to covid, it cannot rule out other viral or bacterial pathogens are responsible for symptoms, to be honest it seems a rather vague test... Yet it was used to create hysteria.

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Apologies for seeming to nit-pick but the language around all this is fairly important and part of the scam.

For that reason, I note that the EUA you posted does not use the term "Covid".

It says "CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel"

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Very true, the language is absolutely deliberate, it's part of the scam for sure, and also perhaps an escape route if (in an unlikely scenario) they were ever to be put on trial, these are the clauses to slip away from responsibility.

An absolute honour to have you nit pick my comment Jessica, a long time admirer of your work, I forwarded Pandemic Casualty Event 101 to quite a few people today.

I'll provide the following if of use (fully acknowledging my interpretation could be off) 👇

This may be a wild goose chase, but this defunct link (or copy pasted wrong by me) had some interesting wording too... Principally the use of the word "contrived" due to lack of samples of the virus to formulate a test for said virus... Link was:

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-reference-panel-comparative-data

I copied pasted the following from the above link when I saved the original reference Capitalised for highlighting purposes:

"During the early months of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, CLINICAL SPECIMENS WERE NOT READILY AVAILABLE to developers of IVDs to DETECT SARS-CoV-2".

"Therefore, the FDA authorized IVDS based on available data from CONTRIVED samples generated from A RANGE of SARS-CoV-2 material sources (for example, gene specific RNA, synthetic RNA, or whole genome viral RNA) for analytical and clinical performance evaluation".

"While validation using these CONTRIVED SPECIMENS provided a measure of confidence in test performance at the beginning of the pandemic, it is NOT FEASIBLE to PRECISELY COMPARE the performance of VARIOUS TESTS that used CONTRIVED specimens because EACH TEST validated performance USING SAMPLES DERIVED from DIFFERENT gene specific, synthetic, or genomic nucleic acid SOURCES".

"From February through the middle of May, the FDA issued a total of 59 EUAS for IVDs for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 based on validation data using contrived specimens derived from SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA."

Okay "Contrived" specimens?? 🤔

The non universality of different tests, found in paper below is probably even more sus as it makes determining "covid" very individualistic as there is no standardization and high variability in determining "covid".

"Although PCR Ct (cycle threshold) values have been shown to be inversely associated with viral load and infectivity, there is NO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION across laboratories, rendering PROBLEMATIC the interpretation of RT-PCR tests when used as a tool for mass screening."

(So why was it used for mass screening??)

SOURCE: https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext

So if you were trying to worm your way out of a future court case, are these are the types of disclaimers you would write to clear your organisation or company of blame??

More info that the original CDC test may have been using pre-existing virus sequences*, rather than covid specific found in link below (same link as first referenced in original comment but providing it again for convenience)

https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

Page 40

"Since NO quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed and this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with CHARACTERIZED STOCKS of in vitro transcribed full length RNA (N gene; GenBank accession: MN908947.2) of KNOWN TITER (RNA copies/µL) spiked into a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and viral transport medium (VTM) to mimic clinical specimen.”

Characterised stock (so pre existing samples in Genebank) of known titers, that MIMICS a clinical specimen???

A contrived specimen again...??

This sounds incredibly sketchy as to what they were really looking for...

Pre existing, known gene sequences from other viruses??

Okay the next thing I'd add is HOW did they isolate for sequences so quickly?

"More than 200 strains of viruses that cause colds have be identified, which makes the development of appropriate immunization methods very difficult, if not impossible. For about 40% OF ALL COLDS, the responsible agents havent even been identified." Biology (2nd Edition) 1989 Raven and Johnson page 576, still as relevant today, as ever.

With that in mind, given they have TROUBLE IDENTIFYING CAUSITIVE viruses normally, there's HUNDREDS of potential viruses to choose from, all never before identified...

Yet they identified covid and determined causation in A MONTH??

Think about this... How did they identify this one SO EARLY???

BY JANUARY 2020????

AND determine what they found as the CAUSITIVE AGENT??

I can understand they may identify the sequences and virus a few years later, but within days???

Come on...

I could rant on... But I won't ...

Thanks for all you do Jessica 🙏 ... Apologies for using (mis using) the word covid in my reply (used for sake of brevity)

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Normie litmus test:

“I have COVID”. “When I got COVID”. “I tested for COVID”.

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Very true, I misused it there, SARS-CoV-2 is very wordy... Possibly deliberatly so... SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes a respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)... Which in and of itself was a fiction to begin with!

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Ironic that Kevin McKernan, one of the authors critical of the Drosten PCR paper, won’t now here any criticism of the specificity of the Covid PCR test since he “got Covid.”

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Odd isn't it.

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Yes and frustrating because I would really like to get at the truth of what happened in March 2020 and beyond. But too many egos are involved (and possible conflict of interests).

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Very weird. I'm beginning to think even DNA study is junk.

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✅ Co-signing, of course. There was no pandemic.

Related to the points about PCR testing: Here's an excerpt from Professor Martin Burke at U of Illinois, speaking on a radio show on August 25, 2020, about the saliva test he helped develop for [illegal] use with students and staff

Host: So speed is one thing. What about accuracy? Compare the accuracy of this test to the accuracy of other tests in the market.

Dr. Burke: Great, yeah. So we've done a whole bunch of those types of comparisons. Bottom line: We feel very confident the test is highly accurate [and] has extremely low false positive rate. So if it's positive, it's positive, and allows us to be very confident that the information we have is actionable. The other thing I’ll tell you: it's not binary. So it doesn't just tell you yes or no. We actually get a readout on how many copies per milliliter per half a teaspoon of the virus are in your saliva, so you can make smart choices if someone, you know, has a lingering positivity that's left over from an old infection that looks very different than if someone now has like 10 billion copies per mill in their saliva. So we can make smart choices based on the data about who's really potentially a dangerous, you know, spreader and who's probably just a lingering positive and doesn't need to be isolated. So it actually gives us a lot of good information to make this kind of decision.

🤔

U of I lied about having an FDA EUA for that test btw - and got caught: https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/how-the-fda-found-out-about-u-of

University president said later that it was "saliva PCR, genomics essentially" and the data from the [illegally-collected] samples was being retained and stored and sold. Still no accountability for this and no idea who all invested in the testing company https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/transcript-u-of-i-president-tim-killeens

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It was the wild west.

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Midwest ;)

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John West….all too fishy.

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What I'd like to know is: even if you have the requisite 2 or more genetic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 detected by PCR with a high cycle threshold, how do you know that the virus is actually viable, especially in the absence of symptoms?

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You don't. The notion of PCR is to look for "primers " which are just small fragments of the supposed long sequence. A positive only means you found those fragments. It cannot tell you if the whole virus is present, let alone whether it's viable, let alone whether youre infected.

It be like finding an old manuscript that contains John 3:16 in it. Does that mean you found an old Bible? Not necessarily. Maybe you found am old letter that quoted that one verse.

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To further the analogy. Let's presume you actually did find the entire Bible. Does that mean you read it? That you found understanding, salvation, or otherwise? You find a Gideon's Bible in your hotel room. Does that mean that everyone who was ever in that hotel room became a spiritual person? Of course not.

Likewise, you find "the virus". But "COVID" is the "disease" caused by "the virus". Is the presence of "the virus" synonymous with the effects it is purported to induce? No it isn't.

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Perfect analogy.

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Exactly--that was my point. (Sorry, I was not as articulate as you are.)

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Sorry, I could not finish your piece. Not for any glaring inaccuracy but for one big omission. You do not diagnose anything as profound as Covid on the result of a single test, period. PCR nor any other.

Before a test is given, the person being tested must first present to hospital with symptoms of the disease of concern. Thus, all test results of those taken off the street, in store fronts, pharmacies, drive throughs and what not, throw them out.

Second, all other possible causes must be ruled out. Once these two steps that are required for all other diseases are completed, then test. Now, Ebola is not the flu nor was covid said to be. In cases where a positive result would have tremendous on the individual being tested, three positive results of three different tests are usually required to affirm that the tested patient has the disease in question. Two positive results from two different types of test are sometime sufficient, but the standard is three.

Thus, while I too did engage in arguing over the high CT, I usually did so in conjunction with arguing against the whole Covid testing protocol. The test itself, is irrelevant as it was performed incorrectly anyway. However, while my arguments over CT only were not removed, this argument always was.

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Yes they did diagnose this "profound" illness on a single test and locked people in their homes until their asymptomatic symptoms disappeared and a repeat test was negative.

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Isn’t it interesting that a single positive result labeled one as a covid case but that it took 3 negative results to prove you weren’t?

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Yes. Anything questioning that was removed. You can talk about lab leaks all day long.

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Another point to make. You referenced the Corman-Drosten report, whereas you should probably spell out that the paper you reference was the critique of the Corman-Drosten paper (the paper that established the basis for the PCR test). The Corman-Drosten paper was magically reviewed and accepted in double-quick time back in January 2020 - the critique paper was rejected in November 2020. Of course it was - the PCR bandwagon was rolling!

When referencing Drosten, it is worth going back to MERS in 2014. A younger Drosten made some very telling admissions about PCR then: https://www.science.org/content/article/mers-virologists-view-saudi-arabia:

"Before, tests were done on patients who had pneumonia and required [intensive care]. But now people are being tested not because they are sick, but because they had contact with a patient. Some of these tested positive, but many of them don’t really get sick."

"When you look at the PCR data on all the recent tests, they are often very weak signals. These people probably just have a very low concentration of virus in the throat. It's hard to interpret. It’s possible that these are infections that are quickly controlled by the immune system. That may happen frequently in health care workers dealing with several really sick patients."

"People who had had contact with SARS patients but showed no symptoms were not tested with PCR. Instead they were tested for antibodies later, to see if an infection had happened. That should happen now in Saudi Arabia, too. Asymptomatic people should not be tested with PCR. "

"The question of whether there is a mild, short-lived infection in some people is scientifically interesting. But in cities like Jeddah, it is bringing the health system close to collapse. That is the big problem. So many samples are being tested that the lab capacity won’t suffice for the real cases. And as more and more samples are tested, mistakes are bound to happen. On top of that, if you identify all these mild cases and put them in isolation beds, then you have no beds left for the real cases."

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I will update the reference to Cormen Drosten later. Good point.

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